Mailshot says: Some very exciting news

Mailshot means: We weren’t making any money, we’re desperately trying something different, please click this button so our investors think its working

Huh, I got an email from mastodon.social saying ‘Hey, we miss you’.

I had forgotten I opened an account on m.s a long while back, before this one.

Generally skeptical of hey we miss you emails. Are they ever genuinely in your interest and not the platforms? I guess if a platform truly believes that they’re doing something good then maybe so. Hope I’ve not become bitter and cynical.

But. If it was titled ‘hey we want more active users’ I’d probably respect it more.

Programming learnings today:

– debugging WordPress plugins is a massive timesink, I really need to find a more elegant way of doing that if I wish to stick at that
– delegated access is really fun, it takes a while to wrap your head around different OAuth flows though